very hard. not only everyone has a different answer, but most people will change their own answer depending on when they are asked

some of my favorites

Blade Runner
Film Blue
Bicycle Thief
Lord of the Rings
Fight Club
Young Frankenstein
Down by Law
2001: a space odyssey
Bagdad Cafe
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Rear Window
Delikatessen
Finding Nemo
Being There
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blues Brothers
8 1/2
War Games
Amelie
Fargo
The usual suspects
Il sorpasso
Empire Strikes Back
The Battle of Algiers
Deliverance

i'll stop at 25

__________________I do not believe in lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape. Miles Straume

I've just finished reading "Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin," which is extraordinary. Herzog is hardcore. Want to hear from somebody who made his art his life? Read it. Last night I watched "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," which isn't on my top list but is pretty amazing, the more so now that I know a lot about how it was made.

Since I didn't see it mentioned: American History X deserves a spot in this thread. Picking a "greatest film" is too daunting of a task. Although American History X is the last film I've seen to evoke genuine emotion, and an audience connection should be one of the main criteria in judging a great film.

Oddly enough prior to that the previous movie I had seen that evoked similar emotion was The 25th Hour, an underrated film which coincidentally also stars Edward Norton.

very hard. not only everyone has a different answer, but most people will change their own answer depending on when they are asked

some of my favorites

Blade Runner
Film Blue
Bicycle Thief
Lord of the Rings
Fight Club
Young Frankenstein
Down by Law
2001: a space odyssey
Bagdad Cafe
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Rear Window
Delikatessen
Finding Nemo
Being There
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blues Brothers
8 1/2
War Games
Amelie
Fargo
The usual suspects
Il sorpasso
Empire Strikes Back
The Battle of Algiers
Deliverance

i'll stop at 25

The Battle of Algiers is brutally good. It was censored in France -for political reasons- for a long time.

Aye arsenic and old lace was an excellent movie It used to get a regular airing on tv (I'm thankfully not old enough to have caught that one at cinema!) was always worth a watch, not seen it on TV for quite a while now

Aye arsenic and old lace was an excellent movie It used to get a regular airing on tv (I'm thankfully not old enough to have caught that one at cinema!) was always worth a watch, not seen it on TV for quite a while now

Keep an eye out for 'Kind Hearts And Coronets' if it is ever shown; it is the most exquisitely polished black comedy of the lot.

Actually, I loved it when I saw it, so much so, that I was impelled to purchase a box set of ealing comedies.